| From the New Orleans Daily Crescent |
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| August 30, 1861 |
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| Local Intelligence |
| Arrival of the Texan Troops |
| The body of Texas troops,
whose coming we announced several days since, arrived here yesterday
evening by the Opelousas Railroad {New Orleans,
Opelousas & Great Western RR}, and were immediately marched up to
the Jackson Railroad {New Orleans, Jackson & Great
Northern RR} depot, and will leave for Virginia by the 7 o'clock
train this morning. They are under the command of Senior Captain Key, of
the Hardeman Texans, and are parts of the two regiments which
rendezvoused at Camp Van Dorn, near Harrisburg, and which have been
accepted by President Davis for the war. The detachment consists of five
companies, as follows: Hardeman Texans, Capt. Key; Tom Green Rifles.
Capt. Carter; Robinson County Fiveshooters, Capt. Townsend; Guadaloupe
Rangers, Capt. Bane; and the Lone Star Guards, Capt. Ryan -- 485 men,
all told {requiring twelve to fifteen cars}.
They left Camp Van Dorn two weeks ago yesterday, and in that time have
come four hundred and ninety-eight miles, one hundred and forty of which
was on foot, through a new country, with no roads or bridges, the
weather all the time being wretched. |
| Two other detachments,
consisting of 500 men each, at last accounts, were at Niblett's Bluff,
on the Sabine river, awaiting transportation over the same route; and
the other detachment was expected to arrive there in a day or two. Those
ho arrived here yesterday are a very fine body of men, and their long
march and its attending hardships does not seem to have affected them in
the least. ***** |
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